In April of the first year of Hiroji, Oda Nobunaga, who was sitting in Furuto Castle, called on the heroes of the Quartet to fight against Cheongju in the name of Owari to protect the Spa clan. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

On April 17, Sakuma, Sasa, and the following were the first to lead their troops to Furuto Castle.

On the 22nd, Hayashi Sado, Maeda, and Oda Nobuyuki arrived.

On the 24th, Shibata, Misaku Hayashi and others arrived.

On the 25th, Oda Nobumitsu, the last powerful retainer of the Oda family and the first of the clans, also set out from Moriyama Castle. At this time, Oda's army had exceeded 3,000......

The edict, assembly, formation, oath, and more than ten days have passed, and Fan Xiu's injuries have largely healed. And Sazo investigated for a few days and found out the origin of Hattori Koheita, and it was indeed Tsushima Hattori's expulsion. Naturally, Fan Xiu wanted to say something, so a wine banquet was inevitable, and the venue was still in the sake house called "Thousand Island Sakura".

In addition to these two, the Maeda Toshiya who is familiar with him is indispensable, and he also brought in Ikeda Yokoyuki, who is most similar to him, and also brought a teenager who looks younger than Toyohide.

After meeting, a little greeting, and before the banquet began, the Li family was busy introducing the young man.

"This is my younger brother Fujihachiro, whose name is Ryoyuki! Although it was passed on to the Saxie family, it is also my brother of the Li family, and from now on I will also be your colleagues, so please take care of me! ”

Naturally, nothing is not allowed. So the Li family took this younger brother to toast in turn. This young man is delicate and thin, and his demeanor is very shy, and at a glance, he looks more like a small surname of a famous family.

The Li family probably also felt that the eyes of the outstanding person were wrong, so he said that although this younger brother did not look like a warrior, he also practiced marksmanship since he was a child, and his martial arts were excellent. The listeners agreed, but they were also skeptical.

After three rounds of drinking, I talked about this joint battle. Zuo Xieliangzhi seems to be silent, and Chengzheng has always been self-conscious, so the stubble was all covered by the Li family and Hengxing. After some nonsense, although it was mainly bragging, it also made Gang Yuanfu's Fan Xiu understand a lot of common sense of war in this period.

"Very left!" The Li family seemed to think of something, and suddenly turned his head and patted Fan Xiu's shoulder, "I've already seen the name of the formation this time, I and Ichizosuke are both vanguards, you and Fujihachi are in the secondary striker team, Katsuzaburo is following His Royal Highness, and my younger brother is still in the first formation, so I ask you to take care of it this time!" ”

"Oh? It's the first battle......"

"That's right, Fujipachi just came to Gudu City."

"That's right...... But I asked me to take care of Fujihachi, so it seems that I don't think about it. Honxiu stared at Ryoyuki Sakya, a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"This ...... What else could be wrong? The Li family subconsciously looked around.

"At the beginning of the year, he was served, and he was thirteen years old (imaginary), and this battle was ...... It is also where the first battle of the very left is. Cheng Zheng finally couldn't help but speak.

"So that's ......" Li Jia scratched his hair, "Looking at Zhizuo's calm and calm appearance, I thought he had been serving for several years......"

"You drank too much and forgot about it." Ikeda Hengxing knocked on the head of the Li family, "It's better for me to tell His Highness and assign me to the secondary striker team." If I am here, I guarantee that they will only take credit and not suffer! ”

"Thank you very much!" Fanxiu bowed down the river, but began to think in his heart, how good is this personal relationship between Hengxing and Nobunaga? The arrangement of going out of the battle, he said that he could change it?

"Thank you, you don't have to." Hengxing shook his hand with a big grin, and then sat up straight, "But now I have one thing to ask for green peppers, and I must not hide my secrets!" ”

"How dare you, how dare you." Fan Xiu smiled, but couldn't help but wonder in his heart - what did he want to ask?

"In that case, I'll just say it." Hengxing lowered his voice and stretched out his finger and pointed to his feet, "It's Miss Zygote from this wine house, and even Zuo has already succeeded in Gudu City less than a month ago?" ”

"What?" Fan Xiu was so shocked that she almost jumped up, zygote, who is that? How did this rumor come about?

"Shizuo promised not to hide his selfishness." Hengxing glared at Fan Xiu dissatisfied, "You were injured that day, so Your Highness arranged for me to take over from you to protect Mr. Wuwei." Then Mr. Wu Wei mentioned Miss Zygote......"

“……”

It's useless to talk too much at the moment, so Fan Xiu lowered his head and listened silently.

Mr. Wu Wei said that when he was in distress, he met a woman from a wine house, and he fell in love with him at first sight and never forgot it. After I inquired, I found out that it was Miss Zyko of the 'Thousand Island Sakura' sake house, so I wanted to give Mr. Wu Wei a face and bring this girl into the city, but she refused to serve Mr. Wu Wei alive or dead, and she didn't pay any amount of money, and finally had to say what happened between you......"

Fan Xiu suddenly realized that the girl who was "attacked" on that moonlit night, and then met during the assassination was a zygote, and it was indeed some fate, but ......

"I don't have anything with her at all, I just know the name!"

After finishing speaking, as soon as he looked up, the words "I don't believe" were clearly written on the faces of the Li family and Hengxing, and Cheng Zheng was also smiling with interest, and even Zuo Xieliangzhi raised his head curiously......

I can't explain it clearly...... Fanxiu looked around, and suddenly had a plan, raised the wine jar on the table and poured it into his throat.

"Hey ......"

"Very Left ......"

"Let's do it anyway if you don't say it......"

……

"I'm too drunk to hear."

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Three days later, on April 28, Oda's army finally marched from Furuto Castle and drove to the first target.

Slightly southeast of Kiyoshu Castle, along the direction of Tokaido, stands Odai Castle. Ever since Oda Danmasa Tadanobu Hide occupied the eastern part of Owari and formed the trend of Odai, this is the gateway to the southeast of Kiyoshu Castle.

The lord of Odai Castle was Oda Yamato Mamoru Yamato, a relative of Oda Mamoru who was once the "Three Priests of Kiyoshu" with Nobunaga's father, and is now in his early fifties. In the troubled times when the wind prevailed in Shimogagami, seeing that the main family was weakened, this old minister was not without further ambitions and plans, but he was born at the same time as Oda Nobuhide, the tiger of Owari, and his wrist was far inferior, and he could only lie dormant under Oda Nobuyomo, who was the same generation as his grandson. As he gets older, his ability to lead troops and govern may not have improved much, but his vision has long been refined. In the face of Oda's army of no less than 3,000, the Yamato Mamoru of Cheongju City is also bound to be defeated, and his own troops are only 200, so what can he do except surrender as soon as possible in order to be lenient?

Seeing the white flag at the head of the castle and the sword offered by Fujizaemon, Nobunaga did not embarrass the old man of the same clan, and "forgiven" his crime with a few words of understatement, but he did not make a promise of territorial blockade, and it seems that the land of thousands of koku is about to be spit out. Immediately Nobunaga ordered the whole army to rest on the spot and attack at noon.

Odai Castle is not so much a city as a branch city, barely able to accommodate two or three hundred people, and it has to leave enough space for several highnesses, and a samurai like Honshu can only rest on the ground under the castle, and he has to hurry up to fill his stomach.

Naturally, there was no food or drink during the march, and the white rice balls that Fan Xiu took out were enough to make most people envious. Next to him are Tsuneko Ikeda and Yoshiyuki Sakyo.

"Fujihachi, look at the way you look now! I don't know, I thought your first battle met Taiyuan Xuezhai! Hengxing looked at Liangzhi who was at a loss, and finally couldn't help but sneer. Now Takeda Shingen Uesugi Kenshin has not yet become a famous fierce general, and the most formidable enemy in the eyes of the Owari people is the Taiyuan monk, Suruga's art of war.

"Yes, understood!" Ryoyuki nodded heavily, but his body was still shaking. After all, it is the heart of a teenager, and after a few days of contact, the estrangement has decreased a lot.

"You kids!" Hengxing looked around, "When I was in the first battle, I followed the lord to attack Sanhe!" Kill seven in and seven out in that group of earth dogs known as martial arts...... "The more Hengxing spoke, the more excited he became, and he couldn't help but dance with his hands. Li Jia and Cheng Zheng are not there, he is the only senior, so he naturally wants to take the opportunity to brag about himself.

"Brother Katsuzaburo was really brave and extraordinary back then." Listening to Hengxing's nonsense like a book review, Liangzhi calmed down a little, but there was still a look of apprehension on his face.

"This kid!" Hengxing shook his head and sighed lightly, turned around and looked behind him. I saw that Hiratum was silently swallowing the rice balls in his hand, and he didn't know that he was a first-time person on the battlefield.

"Zhizuo is also in the first battle today, but he is much calmer than you!" Hengxing showed a rare look of appreciation, "It's really worthy of being the son of the Prison Palace!" ”

"Huh?" Hearing someone talking about himself, Hoshu raised his head in surprise, "It's Katsuzaburo and Fujihachi......" He put down the rice ball and flicked off a few grains of rice that fell on his clothes, "I almost forgot, Fujihachi is the first battle like me...... Are you scared? ”

"Of course...... Of course not afraid! Facing Fan Xiu's gaze, Ryoyuki suddenly trembled, and then immediately straightened his back.

"Oh, you're not afraid...... "I'm afraid," Fan Xiu stretched, "but I'm afraid." I was terrified, so I had to eat desperately to keep myself from thinking about those inexplicable things! ”

"Not bad!" Hengxing nodded with deep feeling, "I was also ...... the first time."

"Oh? Didn't someone just say that the first time you go into battle, you will get seven in and seven out? ”

"Uh...... This one...... Don't you know that it's rude to interrupt a senior? ”

"Oh. That's ......."

The leisure time was not long, and after a short rest, Nobunaga ordered the whole army to march towards Kiyoshu Castle. The operation took only ten days from the gathering of troops to the arrival of troops in the city, which is quite a rare speed in this era. In a hurry, coupled with the fact that the spring ploughing was not completely over, Oda Nobutomo only had time to assemble a team of less than 1,000 people. In the face of such a large numerical disadvantage, presumably he should choose to defend in the cage city.

According to the predetermined plan, Nobuyuki led Shibata, Hayashi and others on the left flank, while Nobumitsu led Sakuma and Aoyama on the right.

With Mori Ke as the main and Toshiya as the deputy, the two hundred spears selected from Nobunaga's direct army were at the head, and Sasa Narumasa and Hashimoto Kazuba led nearly 100 iron cannons into several rows and hid in the back. At this time, the iron cannon was still a rare weapon, and with the wealth of the Oda family, there were only a hundred people - it is worth mentioning that these iron cannons did not come from Kunitomo Village or Tanegashima, but were purchased directly from the Spanish merchants of Kaimachi.

Of course, even from Europe, the quality of the iron cannon is far from excellent, at least in the bottom-up siege warfare, it is difficult to shoot accurately, but as long as these new weapons demoralize the defenders, then the elite soldiers in front can rush forward.

It is the Hongzhi period, and this kind of rare thing can still play a role in deterring the enemy. At least the Oda Yamato Mamoru on the opposite side simply could not have had experience in fighting iron artillery.

Fan Xiu stood behind and watched Sen Kecheng's battle situation, without the slightest expression on his face, but the hand that held the handle of the knife was already strangled with blood. Watching the lives that had just been alive fall one by one, the shock in my heart was by no means something that a person who had lived in a peaceful era for a long time could bear, even if it was just someone who did not know each other.

Under the suppression of the iron cannon, the soft bow in the city was obviously hesitant, and the vanguard of Sen Kecheng left dozens of corpses and came to the city, and several tall ashigaru lay down under the city wall to unburden the burden on their clothes.

"That's Huoyao." Hengxing didn't know when he came to Fanxiu's back, in the end, it was a man from an orthodox martial arts family, and he was still calm when he came to the battlefield, "Although the gate of Cheongju City is thick, it is wooden, and it should be able to explode now......"

"And then it's our turn, isn't it?" Fan Xiu clutched the handle of the gun, and his voice was extremely dry.

"Take it easy!" Hengxing rarely didn't sneer, just patted Fan Xiu's shoulder gently. Then he looked around and introduced the situation of the formation to Hiroshi and Ryoyuki.

"It's strange, the Nobuyuki on the left doesn't work, what's going on with His Highness Nobuyo? Could it be ......"

"You mean Nobutomo Oda in the Netsu of His Highness Nobumitsu? That's impossible! "Honxiu's mind suddenly came to his senses, the historical Nobumitsu is a loyal supporter of Nobunaga, and it seems that there is some obstacle to taking down Kiyoshu. Even if history were to change, it wouldn't go in the exact opposite direction...... However, if this is really the case, all of Nobunaga's 1,000 people will be confessed here-under the nest, there are eggs?

"The one on the horse...... It's the vanguard general in front of His Highness Nobuyo, who is it? Ryoyuki was calm at the moment, and seemed to be completely unaware of the seriousness of the matter, just staring at the general in front of him on the right with slightly envious eyes.

Hengxing glanced at it: "That's the general of Shoushan City, Sakai Sun Hachiro!" ”

"Sakai ...... Sakai ...... "Honhide recited it silently a few times, and some fragmentary memories suddenly came together.

"It's not always ......" The words had not yet landed, and Fan Xiu turned over and galloped towards the right army.

"Temple!" Hattori Kohei saw Xiujiang's figure too far away, and although he was puzzled, he didn't hesitate to follow.

"What is this?" Hengxing frowned and thought for a moment, but he became more and more confused, shook his head helplessly, and chased after him.

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Someone told me that as the protagonist, you must suffer more hardships in order to grow quickly, and the so-called heaven will descend on the people...... (omitted below)

Therefore, a certain wood decides to ...... Hey hey (adulterous laughter)